AAMAS 2009

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Agent Communication:
  • Agent commitments
  • Communication languages
  • Communication protocols
  • Speech act theory
• Agent Cooperation:
  • Biologically-inspired approaches and methods
  • Collective intelligence
  • Distributed problem solving
  • Human-robot/agent interaction
  • Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
  • Teamwork, coalition formation, coordination
  • Incentives for Cooperation
  • Implicit Cooperation
• Agent Reasoning:
  • Planning (single and multiagent)
  • Reasoning (single and multiagent)
  • Cognitive models
  • Knowledge representation
• Agent Societies and Societal issues:
  • Artificial social systems
  • Environments, organisations and institutions
  • Ethical and legal issues
  • Peer to peer coordination
  • Privacy, safety and security
  • Social and organizational structure
  • Trust, reliability and reputation
• Agent Theories, Models and Architectures:
  • BDI
  • Belief revision
  • Bounded rationality
  • Formal models of agency
  • Logic-based approaches and methods
  • Mobile agents
  • Modeling other agents and self
  • Modeling the dynamics of MAS
  • Reactive vs. deliberative approaches
  • Service oriented architectures
  • Verification of MAS
• Agent-based simulation:
  • Artificial societies
  • Emergent behavior
  • Simulation techniques, tools and environments
  • Social simulation
• Agent-based system development:
  • Agent development techniques, tools and environments
  • Agent programming languages
  • Agent specification or validation languages
  • Design languages for agent systems
  • Development environments
  • Programming languages
  • P2P, web services, grid computing
  • Software engineering (agent- or multi agent-oriented)
• Agreement Technologies:
  • Argumentation
  • Collective decision making
  • Judgment aggregation and belief merging
  • Negotiation
  • Norms
• Economic paradigms:
  • Electronic markets
  • Economically-motivated agents
  • Game Theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)
  • Social choice theory
  • Voting protocols
  • Artificial economies/markets
  • Auction and mechanism design
  • Bargaining and negotiation
• Learning and Adaptation:
  • Computational architectures for learning
  • Reward structures for learning
  • Evolution, adaptation
  • Co-evolution
  • Single agent Learning
  • Multiagent Learning
• Systems and Organisation:
  • Autonomic computing
  • Complex systems
  • Self-organisation